Why Does a Biblical Theology of Suffering Matter?

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How we think about suffering will radically affect how we see God and the world around us. If you believe God should always bless you and your loved ones with material abundance and good health, you are setting yourself up to lose your faith. Actually, you should lose that faith, because it’s false. Replace it with true biblical faith.

Trials are an opportunity to jettison false ideas about God and ground ourselves in who He reveals Himself to be in His Word. Only faith in the true God can pass, and even find strength in, the most formidable of life’s tests.

Suffering will come; we owe it to God, ourselves, and those around us to prepare for it.

I did a podcast episode with Davey Blackburn from Nothing Is Wasted Ministries, and one of the questions he asked me was, “Why is a proper theology so imperative to us being able to walk through pain and suffering?” (Davey has experienced much suffering himself; read his story here.)

Listen to or watch our entire conversation.

This article originally appeared here and is used by permission. 

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Randy Alcornhttp://www.epm.org
Randy Alcorn is the founder and director of Eternal Perspective Ministries (www.epm.org), a nonprofit ministry dedicated to teaching principles of God’s Word and assisting the church in ministering to the unreached, unfed, unborn, uneducated, unreconciled, and unsupported people around the world. Before starting EPM in 1990, Randy served as a pastor for fourteen years. He is a New York Times best-selling author of over fifty books, including Heaven (over one million sold), The Treasure Principle (over two million sold), If God Is Good, Happiness, and the award-winning novel Safely Home. His books sold exceed ten million copies and have been translated into over seventy languages.

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